Filling material for reaction-spaces.



0. 'GUTTMANN.

FILLING MATERIAL FOR REACTION sPAcEs.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 3, 1907.

Patented Feb. 16, 1909.

Fl Inventor".

FFGB.

Witnesses;

T cell whom "it may concern:

oso'AR GUTTMANN, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

Specification of Letters Patent.

' FILLING MATERIAL FOR REACTION-SPACES;

Patented Feb. 16, 1909.

Application filed June 3, 1907. Serial No. 377 ,1214.

, Be it known that I, OSCAR GUTTMANN, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at Londo nfEngland, have invented a new and useful Filling Material for Reac- Lion-Spaces, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to that class of apparatus used for mixing, att'emperating, condensing, or efl'ecting chemical reactions between liquids or gases in which the said liquids or gases are caused topass through such spaces and over such surfaces as will or are intended to divide or break .up the flow thereof and b contact with the said surfaces effect the desired exchanges, reactions, or interreactions. The spaces and surfaces abovementioned are obtained by the use, in the interior of apparatus of the kind, .of bodies or units so disposed towards each other as to afford suchspaces for the flow of the liquids or gases there through as will enable such liquids or gases to be brought as far as possible into intimate contact with the operative surfaces without retarding the flow and so as to secure the maximum effective surface. But the'bodies or units hitherto employed while being ponderous aremore or less ineffective because theyleave channels between each other which permit the liquids or gases to pass by with a small amount of contact, or even effective are very costly-0r in other well known, respects unsuitable. Even the lmproved bodies or units in the form of hollow balls which are described in my German PatentSpecification No. 91 815 of 1896 are too expenslve when used in large apparatus such as a Guy Lussac tower or a water cooling tower and moreover they are liable to become filled or coated with solid matter suspended or produced in liquids or gases that may be operated on. My improved contact bodies or units on the other hand are very light, simple-to make and use, inexpensive in construc- Lion, and they cannot become filled with deposit while at the samev time they present a greater area of contact surface and capacity of reaction space in each cubic foot of apparatus than other forms of bodies or units hitherto used, with theexception of the hollow balls abovementioned. They can also be made so as to have more free gas passage to each square foot of contact surface than any other bodies or units used as filling material for the said kind of apparatus and so as not to permit the gases or liquids treated therein to follow a direct outlet instead of passing from body to body. In all such respects my improved bodies are superior to those hitherto employed.-

My improved bodies or units which are made of suitable material and of suitable size are channel like structures A or U shaped in cross section and are provided with shoul ders on their outer surface upon which another row of channels can be placed. Perforations or slots are formed near the shoulders through the walls of the channels for thepassage of the gases or liquids so that when two or more units are superimposed the oneupon the other and so on, the whole forms a honeycombed or cellular structure having intercommunicating reaction spaces formed between the successive layers of superposed units. Instead of making the channels single of a A or n shaped cross section with shoulders they may be made of a W shaped cross section or double channel form in a manner easily understood and any of the said channelsmay also be used in a reversed position and instead of being made .continuous channels from one to the other they maybe divided in their length into compartments by inserting division walls at suitable. intervals apart and the inner and outer surfaces may be fluted or corrugated so as to increase the area of the contact surfaces.

In the accompanying drawlng Figure l is a cross sectional view of such an A shaped channel part referred to. Fig. 2 a similar view of a semicircular channel. Fig. 3 a W shaped channel. Figs. 4 and 5 modifications of Fig. 1. Fig. 6 a perspective view of an A shaped channel part and Figs. 7, 8, 9, show channels of various shapes as placed in position in a tower like form of the apparatus beforementioned.

In these drawings a are the channels, I) the shoulders,.c the holes forrthe passage of gases and liquid, d is an extension of the apex of a channel part for the purpose of further deflecting the current of gas, if so desired. In Fig. 5 the sides of the channel part areshown corrugated.

Where the units touch the sides 'or containing walls of an apparatus wherein they are placed or disposed, a vertical side strip f is interposed and serves as a support for the row of unitssuperposed as above described 2. Filling material for reaction spacescomposed of a plurality of inverted channel shaped bodies provided with apertures and external shoulders formed at the apertures, the arms of one body resting on the shoulders of two adjacent bodies.

3. Filling material for reaction spaces composed of a plurality of inverted channel shaped bodies having diverging sides vprovided with apertures, and projections on said sides below said apertures, one arm of an ad- I jacent body supported on one of said projections and a supporting medium mounted on the other projection.

4. Filling material for reaction spaces composed of a plurality of inverted channel shaped bodies having their sides diverging from the top and provided with oblique passages therein, and, projections on said sides below the outer edges of the passage.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two witnesses. I

- OSCAR GUTTMANN.

v itness'esz H. D. JAMESON, F. L. RAND. 

